project teams are hard at work completing construction shop drawings for the monorail’s final stages of civil, MEP, and architectural work. On the eastern side of the Nile River, the monorail stretches 54-km to connect Cairo with the New Administrative Capital. To see this ambitious project to fruition, NAT selected Hill International to provide project management services on the Cairo Monorail. For the EoN Line, civil work is nearing 81 percent completion, and construction of its guideway beam structure is nearing 92 percent completion. The EoN’s stations are over halfway finished, and there is ongoing work for the mechanical installation for its switches–with six of 10 being installed. When the line is finished, these switches will serve a crucial
role allowing for the changing of train routes within the system. Forty trainsets will provide service for the EoN line, and all of which have been delivered. Furthermore, procurement is complete for all signaling, communications, AFC, platform screen doors, and electromechanical systems is complete, and work is in various stages installing them. On the western side of the Nile River, the monorail will stretch 42-km and house 13 stations. Work on the West of Nile (WoN) Line is slightly behind with overall work being just over halfway completed. Of this work, the WoN Line’s line segments are around 68 percent complete, and work on the line’s stations is about halfway completed. Although work has been comparatively slower on the WoN line, the pace has increased in regard to its architectural works and MEP work in the stations. Progress on both lines is expected to progress rapidly for both lines over the next six months. Important milestones–such as the completion of work on all line segments on the EoN line and seven segments on the WoN line–are on the immediate horizon for the crews working to complete the Cairo Monorail. Project crews are currently waiting for the power-on of the monorail’s systems, which could potentially happen in the next few weeks pending review from local electricity authorities. Once this happens, the formal testing and commissioning phase of the EoN line will begin. The WoN line is also expected to see significant accomplishments over the next six months with crews nearing major completion on the line’s depot. Crews are also poised to begin systems installation activities up to station seven. There is also significant progress as to the release of construction for the WoN Line’s pending guideway sections.
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